Garment-supporter.



PATENTED JUNE 30, 1903.

8. G. GINNER.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLIQA'I'ION FILED JULY 19, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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Patented June 30, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL GEORGE GINNER, OF WILLIAMS POR'I, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 732,183, dated June 30, 1903.

Application filed July 19, 1902. Serial No. 116,219. (No model.)

State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Garment-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to obviate the employment of buttons and clasps in supporting mens trousers and drawers and to facilitate disconnection of these parts from the suspenders when desired.

With these and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a garment-supporter, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts, there is illustrated one form of embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the elements therein exhibited may be varied or changed as to shape, proportion, and exact manner of assemblage without departing from the spirit thereof, and in the drawings- Figure 1 is a view in perspective exhibiting the garment-supporter of this invention associated with a pair of drawers and a pair of trousers. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the suspender-ends. Fig. 3 is a view in vertical transverse section showing the manner of connecting the suspender-ends with the drawers or trousers.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a pair of trousers, and B a pair of drawers. The waistband, both of the trousers and of the drawers, have eyelets 1 associated with them, the waistband of the trousers having six eyelets corresponding to the number of buttons usually employed, and the waistband of the drawers has four eyelets. These eyelets are by preference made of metal and are passed through orifices in the parts with which they coact and are upset in the usual manner.

The suspenders 2, which constitute the supporting element, may be constructed in the usual or any preferred manner-that is, as to the web 3 and the ends 4the principal difference being that instead of having the ends provided with buttonholes they are provided with hooks 5 to engage the eyelets. These hooks are secured to or formed integral with sleeves 6, to which the ends 4 are secured in any preferred manner. By preference the hooks will be of some non-corrosive metal, such as nickel-plated brass or aluminium.

Another feature of difierence in the construction of the suspenders herein shown from those in common use is thateaoh of the rear terminals of the webs has a Suspender-end 7 permanently associated with it, the hook of which engages with an eyelet in the rear portion of the waistband of the drawers, while the hooks of the ends 8 at the front terminals of the suspenders engage with the other eyelets in thedrawers. The arrangement of the rear terminals of the webs and the ends attached thereto results in the removal of all pressure from the suspenders over the spine at the small of the back, and thus tends to reduce to a minimum the discomfort caused the wearer by the suspenders.

As will be observed by reference to Fig. 1, the terminals of all of the hooks of the suspenders are disposed outward, and thereby are prevented from proving a source of discomfort to the wearer. By the employment of eyelets in the garments named and the provision of suspenders having hooks for engaging the eyelets the inconvenience resulting from the loss of a trousers button or buttons is entirely overcome, as when the eyelets are once positioned in the parts named they will remain there until the garment is worn out.

The application of the eyelets to the garments will not add anything to the cost of their production, being, in effect, cheaper than buttons, and the provision of hooks on the Suspender-ends will not be'any more expensive than the formation of buttonholes and the provision of spring-clasps to engage the drawers-band.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is- A pair of suspenders comprising webs adapted to pass over the shoulders of the wearer, said webs being provided at their front terminals with ends, each having asso- IO eyelet provided in the waistband of the trousers and the other of which is adapted to engage an eyelet inthe waistband of the drawers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL GEORGE GINNER.

Witnesses:

A. L. ScHED, FRED. I-I. BAROTH. 

